Heroic Hindu Resistance To Islam – The Defense Of Kabul And Zabul
In this piece, taken from “Heroic Hindu Resistance to Islamic Invaders”, historian Sita Ram Goel explains how Islam did not get a toehold in India easily. Sita Ram Goel tells us how the defense of Kabul and Zabul was also very heroic and even these peripheries of India were not won by Islam easily. Sita Ram Goel based this book on another great work called “Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders Up to 1206 A.D.” by Ram Gopal Mishra, who is quoted profusely in the text by Sita Ram Goel.
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Matter or Consciousness – What Came First?
In this article, Shri Anirvan discusses the theory of material evolution that is prevalent in the modern world and he charts out how the spiritual evolution of man is different from this and one should not fall in the trap of explaining everything with the idea of Evolution.
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Heroic Hindu Resistance to Islam – The Arab Failure
In this piece, taken from “Heroic Hindu Resistance to Islamic Invaders”, historian Sita Ram Goel explains how Islam did not get a toehold in India easily. Often by looking at the eventual defeat of most Hindu kingdoms, it seems as if Islam won over India easily. However, looking at history one realizes that it took Islamic armies several hundred years to get a toehold in India. And that owes to their great valor and chivalry and immense military prowess. Sita Ram Goel based this book on another great work called “Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders Up to 1206 A.D.” by Ram Gopal Mishra, who is quoted profusely in the text by Sita Ram Goel.
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Were Indians Uneducated Before the British Arrived?
Because we believe that the British gave us railways, roads, parliamentary democracy and much more, we also tend to believe that the Englishman made us educated and civilised. It is a common belief that before the advent of British colonial rule, most Indians were not very well educated or that education was limited to a few privileged Brahmins. But what do historical records say?
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Nature of the Divine in Hinduism: One or Many?
This is an excerpt from the book, “Veda Mimansa – Volume 1” by Shri Anirvan. In this brief foray, Shri Anirvan describes how Hindus do not find any internal contradiction between believing in a formless, attribute-less divinity in the form of Supreme Consciousness and on the other hand, worshipping hundreds of deities with proper forms and attributes.
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The Origin and the Use of Image in India – Part 2
In this excerpt from the book “Transformation of Nature in Art” by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy explains the logic behind image worship in Hindu Dharma. he explains the apparent paradox of Hindu Dharma where the Divine is imagined as without any form or attributes on one hand and on the other multiplicity of forms and attributes are also to be seen quite prevalent in the society. Coomaraswamy explains that in reality there is no paradox.
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Agama & Bhavana – The Source of Language Intuition
In this excerpt from his famous work "The Vakyapadiya of Bhartrhari with the Vrtti" Shri K. A. Subramania Iyer discusses the nature of knowledge and the sense with which we acquire it. He talks about how the language is intuited, how it originates in human consciousness and how it is manifested in the form that we are familiar from.
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The Origin and the Use of Image in India – Part 1
In this excerpt from the book “Transformation of Nature in Art” by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, he explores the conception of Art in India. He analyzes icon worship in India and explains how the Hindus conceive divinity and how they worship it. He also analyzes the hypocritical attitudes of Christianity and Islam who blame Hindus of being superstitious.
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Six Kinds of Intuitions (Pratibha)
In this excerpt from his famous work "The Vakyapadiya of Bhartrhari with the Vrtti" Shri K. A. Subramania Iyer discusses the nature of knowledge and the sense with which we acquire it. He does not only talk about the outer knowledge but also inner knowledge in this timeless gem on India's great wisdom in language and linguistics.
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Indus University Awards D. Litt. To Shri Shrikant Talageri
Noted Indologist and author Shrikant Talageri was awarded Honorary D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) by Indus University, Ahmedabad at the 4th Convocation of the University.
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